Name: Dolores Gallagher dies in Saginaw and is buried after a Beaver Island marriage, 2008
Start: 2008-12-02
End: 2008-12-08
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Dates: 2008-12-02 – 2008-12-08
Kind: Death
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: deathmarriagecommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The Beacon reported Dolores J. Gallagher’s death at a Saginaw medical center on December 2, 2008, her December 8 funeral, and planned spring burial at Holy Cross Cemetery. It also recorded her 1949 Beaver Island marriage to Peter Gallagher.

Evidence limits

The burial is reported as planned rather than confirmed here; this record does not substitute for civil, medical, funeral-home, or cemetery records.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, January 2009, "Dolores Gallagher 1931-2008."
Publishes the death notice, family and employment biography, December 8 funeral, and planned spring burial at Holy Cross Cemetery. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, January 2009, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the obituary.
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Beaver Island Forum, "Dolores Gallagher- RIP," December 2–8, 2008.
Community posts reported Gallagher's December 2 death, reproduced the obituary, and described her Beaver Island marriage and planned spring burial at Holy Cross Cemetery. The Beacon remains the stronger held source; the forum adds contemporaneous circulation and family-context detail.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Dolores Gallagher dies in Saginaw and is buried after a Beaver Island marriage, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-dolores-gallagher-death-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 2009, "Dolores Gallagher 1931-2008." (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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